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Obama at G20 conference: “ISIS is the face of evil!”

Speaking at the conclusion of the G20 meeting in Turkey, President Barack Obama said on Monday that sending troops to Syria to fight ISIS would be a “mistake” because we would see “a repetition of what we’ve seen before.” He explained that if you “do not have local populations that are committed to inclusive governance and who are pushing back against ideological extremes, they resurface.”

With Keystone snub, Obama aims for more leverage on climate

For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord.

Kerry’s visit to Greece postponed

U.S. State Department announced that the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Athens scheduled to take place on 14-15 November was postponed.

John Kerry was due to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in order to express the U.S. support in the field of investments and in Greece’s efforts to return to economic growth.

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